"Océano Ártico" in English

Most people know that profound change is happening in the Arctic Ocean.

TMMK is Toyota’s largest plant in North America employing about 6,600 full-time team members.

The natural gas deposits in the Arctic Ocean will be of vital importance to the EU in the future.

An enormous gas pipeline project from the Arctic Ocean, via the Baltic Sea, to Central Europe is already being planned.

However, I think it is important for the EU not to get too excited, as it does not have any coastline along the Arctic Ocean.

The region of the Arctic Ocean is assuming ever greater significance, not just for the continent of Europe, but for the whole world.

Unfortunately, the openness of research in the Arctic is being increasingly restricted by the states which have access to the Arctic Ocean.

Marine protection in the Arctic cannot wait Global economics, not declining sea ice, is driving ships to the Arctic Ocean.

However, the Commission is of course aware that high concentrations of technetium 99 have been found along the coastlines of the Scandinavian countries and in the Arctic Sea.

We also feel that it is crucial to ensure that the Arctic and the Arctic Ocean is an area free of military forces and nuclear weapons, as Mrs Diana Wallis said earlier.

– Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner Verheugen, one can, if need be, always relate good and bad news on the topic of the Northern Dimension.

The northern gas pipeline is probably going to start being built within two or three years which is to go from the Arctic Ocean, past Finland and via the Baltic to Central Europe.

Unlike the Antarctic, which is a vast, uninhabited continent surrounded by an ocean, the Arctic is a maritime space, surrounded by inhabited land belonging to sovereign countries.